Show some school pride: Use food coloring in the icing to create your school’s colors. You can also keep it classy with chocolate frosting, or black or white frosting. If you are making a frosting recipe, be sure it dries down hard like homemade royal icing.
Make them into cakes: Put these graduation cap cookies on top of a cupcake, and you have graduation cupcakes!
How to Store Graduation Cap Cookies
Store your cookies in an airtight container, unlayered. There is no need to refrigerate them! A word to the wise though: Do not leave these tasty little morsels in a hot car in June; they will melt faster than you can say, “Happy graduation!”
How long do graduation cap cookies last?
Cookie graduation caps can last up to a week if stored in a well-sealed container.
Can you freeze graduation cap cookies?
Sure thing! These super cute confections are easy to throw in the freezer and will last up to three months in a sealed container. When you do take them out of the deep freeze, they don’t need to be heated or thawed very long. They’re pretty tasty slightly chilled.
Graduation Cap Cookie Tips
How else can you make the tassel on these graduation cap cookies?
Frosting isn’t the only option for making the tassel. Look for skinny licorice ropes, or cut tiny strips from sour candy tape or Fruit by the Foot. If you feel like expressing your inner sculptor, you can try fashioning a tassel out of fondant.
What are some other graduation party food ideas?
When planning a graduation party, you want to make it as hassle-free as possible. Think make-ahead graduation party food and graduation desserts. With chips and dips, sliders or homemade ice cream sandwiches, your party will go down in history as a moment to remember.
Ingredients
24 miniature peanut butter cups
1 tube (4.25 ounces) decorating frosting in color of your choice
24 After Eight thin mints
24 milk chocolate M&M’s in color of your choice or 24 semisweet chocolate chips
Directions
1
Remove paper liners from peanut butter cups; place upside down on waxed paper. Place a small amount of frosting on each peanut butter cup; center a mint on each. Using frosting, make a loop for each cap’s tassel. Place an M&M on top of each loop.
Nutrition Facts
1 dessert: 94 calories, 4g fat (2g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 37mg sodium, 14g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 1g fiber), 1g protein.
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